Tanzania community action
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The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Tanzania.
‘Solar Mamas empower our people by giving them electricity’: the women lighting up Zanzibar, theguardian.com (Jan 15, 2025) - Sea sponges offer lifeline to women in Zanzibar, bbc.com/future (Sep 13, 2023)
- Zimbabwe’s therapeutic ‘friendship benches’, coming to a city near you, positive.news (Jul 26, 2023)
Community involvement
Daraja, aims to make positive changes to life in rural Tanzania by bringing people and government closer together
Community energy
Biodiversity
Approximately 38% of Tanzania's land area is set aside in protected areas for conservation. Tanzania has 16 national parks, plus a variety of game and forest reserves, including the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
Tanzania is highly biodiverse and contains a wide variety of animal habitats. Tanzania has developed a Biodiversity Action Plan to address species conservation. [citation needed]
Maps
Ramani Huria is community-based mapping project in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, training university students and local community members to create highly accurate maps of the most flood-prone areas of the city using OpenStreetMap.
The city of Dar es Salaam is on the coast of Tanzania and in the rainy season is vulnerable to large scale flooding. Additionally, there are no current or reliable maps which can be used by aid respondents in the event of flooding. Maps are created specifically in flood prone wards with the aim of providing information for flood resistance.
The project uses a number of mapping tools including OpenStreetMap, InaSAFE, drone imagery.
See also
- Topic overview and cosmolocal connections: